Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided along Harmon's Run and the Ohio River, Augusta County, VA? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point.

Greathouse kith and kin records found along Harmon's Run and the Ohio River between 1771 and 1776:

John Greathouse deposes at Charlestown in Brooke County, in 1803, that in 1771 Daniel Greathouse improved and settled in the Mingo Bottom [present-day Folansbee, WV], and deponent improved part of the same tract in 1774.

Greathouse of Yohogania County, VA, entered claims for land they settled between 1773 and 1776, before the Commissioners for Adjusting Claims to Unpatented Lands in Monongalia, Yohogania and Ohio Counties, Virginia, on 22 Jan 1780.

1773 - Land: Greathouse settled on Harmon's Run in 1773

Article: 1780 - Greathouse Land Entries, Yohogania County, WV

1773, Oct 11 - WEST AUGUSTA DISTRICT created by Virginia from AUGUSTA. WEST AUGUSTA DISTRICT overlapped territory claimed by WESTMORELAND, Pennsylvania. (Abernethy, 94)

1774, Apr 30 - Yellow Creek Affair: Baker's Bottom, near present-day Newell, WV

The "Yellow Creek Affair " occurred on 30 April 1774, when the family of a Mingo Indian named Logan plus some other Indians were killed by a group of white men led by Daniel Greathouse. Logan's brother, mother, and sister and other Indians went from their camp at the mouth of Yellow Creek (on the Ohio side of the Ohio River) to Joshua Baker's cabin in Baker's Bottom (on the Virginia side of the river). After hearing the report of gunfire from Joshua Baker's cabin, other Indians crossed the Ohio River; ten Indians were killed.

Article: Letters from Yellow Creek 1774

1775, Jul 13 - Land sale: Daniel Greathouse to William McMahan

Excerpt from Chalkley's Chronicles, Vol 2, Page 160:

Long before 1778 Daniel Greathouse had made a settlement and improvement there, and by deed dated 13th July, 1775, sold to William McMahan.

1776, Apr 1 - Militia Duty: Jesse Ellis, Holiday's Cove Fort

Article: 1776 - Militia Duty: Jesse Ellis, Holiday's Cove Fort

1776, Apr 17 - Augusta County Court met at Fort Dunmore, West Augusta District

Sources:

The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, Chicago, IL. Augusta County, VA Chronology.

Roy Bird Cook, Washington's Western Lands, Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930. Page 37, 43; William Crawford surveyed most of the lands on the Ohio and the Kanawha. Greathouse Point, Greathouse County: Bedford County, PA, 1771 - Captain William Crawford was hired as a surveyor.

Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, Volume 2, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. Originally published by Mary S. Lockwood, 1912. Page 105. Online: RootsWeb.

Yohogania Co. VA Land Entry Book, certificate #84 & 85, Harmon Greathouse settled on Harmon Creek in 1773.

Chris H. Bailey, The Stulls of "Millsborough", A Genealogical History of John Stull "The Miller" Pioneer of Western Maryland, Vol. 1, Descendants of (Col.) John Stull of Hagerstown, Mary (Stull) Greathouse, Margaret (Stull) White, 2000, Page 242.

Yohogania Co. VA Land Entry Book, certificate #88 & 89, William Greathouse settled on the waters of the Ohio in 1773.

The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, Chicago, IL. Westmoreland County, PA Chronology.

Yohogania Co. VA Land Entry Book, certificate #86 & 87, John Greathouse settled on Harmons Run in 1774.

Greathouse Point, Letters From Yellow Creek 1774, Augusta County, VA

Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted from the original court records of Augusta County, 1745-1800, VoSlume 2, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1974. Originally published by Mary S. Lockwood, 1912. Page 105. View @ RootsWeb

Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600’s-1800’s, Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pa, Minutes of Court at Fort Dunmore.

The Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, Chicago, IL. Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania County Chronology.